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Florent Ducos

Venture Partner at 50 Partners

Paris, Île-de-France

Overview 

Florent Ducos is an Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist at 50Partners-Impact in Paris, with a strong background in consulting, sales, entrepreneurship, and startup development. He has excelled in roles such as Co-Founder and Investment Director, focusing on impact investing in sectors like AgTech, BioTech, and CleanTech, with a keen interest in Series A and Pre-seed stages. Highlights of his career include co-founding ShareWizMe and ArtyGua, as well as his current role at 50Partners-Impact where he plays a pivotal role in investing in impactful startups and fostering their growth.

Work Experience 

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50 Partners

  • Venture Partner

    2024 - Current

  • Co-Founder | Investment Director @50Partners-Impact

    2018 - 2024

    I have launched and I develop 50 Partners Impact => A positive impact startups accelerator **2021 update: We created and raised a 15M€ seed fund to invest in the startups we accelerate Specific interest in IMPACT investing: ✔︎ ClimateTech ✔︎ AgriTech ✔︎ Circular Economy ✔︎ SocialTech ✔︎ EdTech

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Vungle

  • Team Lead, Demand Sales EMEA

    2016 - 2017

    **2019 update: Acquired by Blackstone for $750M > Building, managing and leading to success a brilliant Sales Team between London and Berlin. > Developing sales in the EMEA region by helping Mobile Advertisers acquire the highest quality users at scale.

  • Account Manager, Demand Sales EMEA

    2015 - 2016

    Making video ads personal! Vungle is the leading platform for in-app video ads. Vungle by the stats: - Serving well over 6 billion video views on 600+ million unique devices monthly - Trusted by 45,000+ mobile apps worldwide with key developer partners such as King, Zynga, EA, Ubisoft, Smule, but also Google, Honda, L'oreal, Coca-Cola, ... - Backed by Google Ventures, Thomvest Ventures and Crosslink Capital - HQ in San Francisco with offices in London, Berlin, Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul

Vungle transforms how people discover and experience apps that delivers the highest value users through engaging video ads.

Raised $25,500,000.00 from Seven Peaks Ventures, AngelPad, Crosslink Capital, Google Ventures, Aol Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Thomvest Ventures and Uncork Capital.

vungle.com
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Khing

  • Mobile Publisher Manager

    2014 - 2015

    Khing is a Mobile Marketing Agency based in London. Khing helps Advertisers to boost their users acquisition on Mobile & Web. The company also provides efficient solutions to Publishers to monetise all their Digital Traffic. Khing clients are Eurosport, Samsung, Babbel, Fiat, ...

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ShareWizMe

  • Co-founder - Business Developer & Growth Hacker

    2012 - 2014

    ShareWizMe develops an app to collect feedback and offers a tool to help organisations engage with large crowds. With ShareWizMe solutions, you can now ask open-ended questions and analyse text answers in real time thanks to a unique semantic engine. My role was to develop the sales (UK,FR,PL) as well as to manage the marketing and product strategy for the company.

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PriceMinister (Rakuten Group)

  • Business Development & Acquisition Marketing

    2012 - 2012

    I was in charge of drawing up and executing the new partner recruitment strategy, with a goal to generate sales by driving incremental traffic & new buyers to the platform.

ArtyGua

  • Co-founder

    2009 - 2010

    ArtyGua was importing fair trade fashion accessories from Guatemala. (Handbags, Silk Scarf, Craft jewels, ...)  Writing a Business Plan  Doing some Market Research  Setting up the logistic chain  Developing partnerships with local artisans / suppliers in Guatemala

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